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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
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It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head.
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All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
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The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions.
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I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
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